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PUOtIC kf DfTAn METRO FINAL 2 1246 SNOW Not Too Cold mm i BTnOIT THE LEADER The Free Press Has the Largest Week-day Circulation of Any Newspaper in Michigan. During the Day hun ries a. m. Sun sett 5:11 n. m.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1947 On Guard for Over a Century Vol. 116 No. 213 Five Cents 7W Mm AAA. Z3 o)nh RIPPING TIME Nude Girls Turn Ball into Riot British Males Let Hair Down If 103-Yd. Rim 1 Sets Record in Rose Bowl Teamwork Promised by Sigl LONDON (UP) Five thousand Britons let their hair down Tuesday night at the Chelsea Arts costume ball, and welcomed the new year with a near riot.

It was the first Chelsea Arts hall since 1938 and old-timers said the celebrators were making up for the ones they missed in the war years. Michigan's New First Family -It rXs 1 Atf-JI 5 3 f- 7 ft s- 7 MRS. SIGLER They ,1 VrtnitnftTT'-i'ifr GOV. SIGLER SAYS VOTERS Promises to restore State 1 is? AT MIDNIGHT, the lights were dimmed and the uproar started. A parade started across the huge hall, led by two nude girls on a float.

Just behind them was a second float, on which were si of London's prettiest girls. They were not nude, but nearly so. The crowd surged forward, the better to see the beauties. One man decided to storm the float. Fifty others followed him.

With a grinding, cracking sound, the float collapsed, plunging both the girls and the men to the floor. BOBBIES came to the rescue cf the girls. Two men had started a fist fight. The whole hall was filled with people leaping up and running around, trying to catch the thousands of toy balloons that had been dropped from the ceiling. One of the guests who got into trouble was Valentine Dyall, a SS-year-old actor.

He was fined $14 for socking a policeman. Ford Suits by UAW Due Friday Portal Action Slated Throughout Nation Richard T. Leonard, UAW (CIO) vice president and national Ford director, announced that portal-to-portal pay claims for Ford Motor Co. employees, amounting to $222,320,000, will be filed Thursday in Federal Court. The filings will be simultaneous throughout the United States.

They will by made under super- UAW Defends Suits, rage 13 vision of the National Ford and logal departments working out of UAW headquarters in Detroit. MICHIGAN CLAIMS alone will total $190,110,000, Leonard said. A breakdown lists the claims as follows: Kntigd plant. Highland Park. Lincoln plant, Iron Mountain, Ypsilanti, $50.0001 Flat Rock, Xorthville and Milan.

$10,000 each, and Milford, $5,000. These added to claims already filed for Willow Run and th-a Chicago plant together with those for plants outside Michigan will bring total Ford claims to $270,320,000, Leonard said. Free rres Wire Service NASHVILLE A DC-3 air-planet owned by John Calvert, flying magician, who was to Cive a show here Wednesday night, crashed near the Municipal airport. It hit a house. One person was reported killed and several injured.

The ship carried a crew of three, and Calvert's entire troupe of 18 was reported aboard. Laiiclon Suggests Setup WASHINGTON (P) Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican nominee for President, came out for a proposal that Congress invite the British and Canadian parliaments to join in forming a combined committee on joint affairs of the three countries. Landon's views were published in Freedom Union, a publication edited by Clarence Streit, leader In the movement for "union now" with Great Britain. On Inside Pages 90,000 See Scoring Dash of Coast Back 1 PASADENA, Calif.

(AP)' Illinois, with a dazzling display of strength that stopped everyone but a record-breaking UCLA halfback, belted the favored Bruins all over the Rose Bowl. It walked off with a stunning 45-14 victory in the 33rd edition of the tournament of Roses. WITH AN AMAZED throng of more than 90,000 spectators packed into the big bowl under a cloudless sky, the supposedly weak-on-of-fense Big Nine champions thundered along from the first. They were never behind or even threatened after they had got going in the second quarter. The only big thrill supporters of previously unbeaten UCLA got came late in the second quarter.

Al Hoisch, 143-pound mite, fielded a kickoff three yards back of his own goal and raced the full distance of the field for a touchdown. The touchdown, the longest and the only one from a kickoff in Rose Bowl history, was listed a3 103 yards. THE FIRST HALF told the story. Coach Ray Eliot's so-called "little boys," outweighed from end to end, ripped the Bruin forwards to bits. 4 The Illini backs.

Buddy Young, Julie Rykovich, Paul Patterson and Quarterback Perry Moss poured through for 245 yards via land and air. UCLA's brilliant array of backs, aside from Hoisch and Quarterback Ernie Case, might as well have stayed in the dressing room. They couldn't whip the Illini ends and tackles, notably Alex Agase, Sam Zatkoff and Ike Owens. ILLINOIS TOOK the opening kickoff. Billed as weak in the air, Perry Moss on the first play from scrimmage fired a pass to Rykovich for 44 yards to the Bruin 16.

Young skittered fqr six and eight. A moment later Rykovich STATISTICS tCXA ILLINOIS 1 i. First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Pasgrg attentpfed Passes completed Passes interrepted runtime averaee Yards penalized Wi 8JO JTK 6K 15 li 4 4 3 33. 1 35. 4 45 73 ILLINOIS (13) Zatkoff L.

Aeasp Prymuski Wenskunas A. Aease Cunz Owens Moss Kjkovich otine Steeer IT LA LCLA (1 Baldwin JlHthaws Uimitro Paul Clement Cham her Fear t'asn Rowland Kossl LK LT Lfi KG KT KK OB If FB 7 7 fi 19 Mrm 14 Illinois 20 Touchdowns Rvkovieh. Vniinv Put. terson. Moss, Steicer, Green.

Case. Hoisch. Points after touchdowns Case Maechtle 3. crashed over from the one-foot line. The try for the point was missed.

The Bruins came back with seven points. Case tossed to Hoisch for 33 yards to set up the score. Three plays later, Case sneaked over from the one-foot line. Aside from Hoisch's electrifying run, breaking the 71-yard record touchdown gallop on a pass interception by Pittsburgh's Bill Daddio in the 1937 game against Washington, the Bruins were through for the afternoon. SPEEDY YOUND scored two Illini touchdowns.

Patterson, Rykovich, Russ Steger, Moss and a sub lineman, Stan Green, each tallied once. The only weak department was the try for the extra point. Don Maechtle kicked three and missed four. Case converted after both i Bruin touchdowns. The Illini chalked up 23 first downs to the Bruins' 12, and broke the previous ground-gaining record of 313 yards set by Washigton State oer Drown in 1916 by rolling up a net 320 yards.

The Bruins, who went into the game with the biggest offensive! mark in the records, wound up with 62 yards on the ground. ILLINOIS SCORED twice on pass interceptions, Steger traveling 64 yards for one. But the res of the Illinois touchdowns were made on long, uninterrupted drives the longest 86 yards in 15 plays. The Bruins, briefly ahead 7-6 In the first period thanks to Case and Hoisch. were behind 25-7 midway in the second and after Hoisch's tremendous tally sprint trailed 25-14 at the half.

Neither team scored in the third, and the Illini racked up 20 points in the final stanza. Takes Oath as Governor of Michigan Thousands Attend 34th State Inaugural BY HUB GEORGE Free Press Political Writer LANSING Kim Sigler, former graft-busting grand-jury prosecutor, became Michigan's 34th chief executive Wednesday. With pomp and ceremony in the nrst war-tree inaugural in six years, the 52-year-old lawyer was sworn in on the east steps of the Capitol at 11 a. m. Chief Justice Leland W.

Carr, his teammate in investigations, administered the oath. TWO THOUSAND citizens witnessed the ceremony and heard the 119th Artillery salute of 19 guns. An estimated 7,000 others filed past the reception line. They came from far and near. They heard Sigler's pledge to "restore Michigan to a position of honor and dignity without special favors" and to head an administration "that has the courage to tackle and solve pressing problems." INDUCTED WITH Sigler were Lt.

Gov. Eugene C. Keyes, of Dearborn; Secretary of State Fred M. Alger, of Detroit; Attorney Gen. Eugene E.

Black, of Port Huron; Treasurer D. Hale Brake, of Stanton, and Auditor Gen. Murl K. Aten, of Jackson. The air was clear and crisp as Sigler, wearing a sleek black overcoat and broad brimmed gray Homburg, took the oath.

The temperature was just a few points above zero when the officials and crowd stood with bared heads for the singing of the national anthem and the opening prayer. On one side, Sigler wag flanked by retiring Gov. Kelly, and on the other, by his daughter Madalon, a Michigan State College sophomore, with Mrs. Sigler slightly in the rear. WILDER M.

BRUCKER, alone of former governors, was on hand. I No explanations were offered i for the absence of former Gov. Alex J. Grosbeck, an ardent Sigler campaign backer, or former Gov. I Murray D.

Van Wagoner, Demo-; crat who was Sigler's campaign rival, or former Gov. William Corn-stock, now a Detroit councilman, who once campaigned with Sigler i on tne faiaie ucKet. Thomas Herbert, of Ohio, flew here from Columbus to be at Sigler's side and to attend the inaugural dinner. He will be inaugurated Jan. 13 when Sigler will return the courtesy visit.

Col. Cass Huff, of Plymouth, Army flier, presented the new State officials after State Chairman John A. Wagner, of Battle Creek, had opened the ceremony. THE WIVES of other elected officials were with them. Only Lt.

Gov. Keyes among the new officials is unmarried. Sigler spoke briefly. "Michigan citizens want their State restored to a position of honor and dignity with no hint of graft or corruption, he said. "They want it known as a State Turn to Page 4, Column 6 Hotel Blaze Routs Score CADIZ, About 20 guests, including a paralyzed 80-year-old woman who had to be carried out by volunteers, escaped injury when fire destroyed the Cadiz Hotel and an ice plant.

Mayor Porter Piercy estimated the damage between $30,000 and $35,000. Firemen were handicapped by snow and sub-freezing weather. Special Stamp to Honor Edison WASHINGTON (JF) A special postage stamp will commemorate the 100th birthday of Thomas Alva Edison. The Postoffice Department said the stamp would be placed on sale for the first tme at the Milan, postoffice, birthplace of the -inventor, Feb. u.

Bilbo Graft Is Charged in Report Senate Committee Publishes Findings WASHINGTON (UP) The Senate War Investigating Committee formally asserted Wednesday Senator Bilbo Miss.) had "improperly used his high office for his personal gain" in accepting gifts and services from war contractors he had aided. The report was signed by six members of the special nine-man committee. It pegged Bilbo with numerous "improprieties" in accepting gifts and services which the committee estimated were worth $57,089.05 to $88,721.44, from half a dozen or more war contractors who had solicited his help. THE REPORT, which made no recommendations concerning Republican moves to deny Bilbo his seat in the 80th Congress, coincided with a decision by the Republican Steering Committee to start ouster proceedings against the rotund Mississippian. Bilbo pleaded with his colleagues to withhold judgment, until they have examined all the charges against him.

He sent a 7-000-word statement to every senator, defending himself point by point against the war-contract accusations. At the same time, he indicated that he expects his fellow Southerners to filibuster in. his defense Friday if the Republicans try to prevent him from taking the senatorial oath of office. Senator Robert A. Taft chairman of the Republican steer-Turn to Page 3, Column 5 Army Officer, Girl Attacked in Shanghai Chinese Students Try to Disrobe Victims SHANGHAI (JP) An American Army lieutenant was beaten on the head with, bamboo canes and an attempt was made to disrobe his girl companion.

An Associated Press photographer seeking to film the incident was given a black eye by Chinese students Wednesday in a continuation of anti-United States demon- rstrations. THE OFFICER and the girl were walking in the former French concession when set upon by some of the 1,000 Chinese students who staged a parade in protest against the retention of American military forces in China. The violence here was in contrast with the orderly if noisy demonstrations earlier in the week by thousands of students at Peiping. It was at Peiping on Christmas Eve that a Chinese girl reported to police that two United States Marines raped her. Eire Plane Crash Death Toll at 13 LIMERICK, Eire (JP) Dudley Hill, 34, radio officer of the crashed trans world airlines Constellation, Star of Cairo, died Wednesday.

His death brought, to 13 the death toll in last Saturday's crash. The babushka was pulled tightly around her neck and drawn close to the wringer. The over load on the electric circuit burned out a fuse. An electric clock on the same circuit stopped at 2:07 p. m.

Coroner Edwin C. Ganzhorn fixed the time of death at that moment. MISS SWAYZE came to work in Ypsilanti from Minden City Dec. 10. Wednesday she inquired of Other Bowl Results Results of other major bowl games.

SUGAR BOWL Georgia 20, X. Carolina 10. ORANGE BOWL Rice 8, Tennessee 0. COTTON BOWL Arkansas 0, La. State 0.

OIL BOWL Ga. Tech 41, St. Mary's 19. GATOR DOWL Oklahoma 34, N.C. State 13.

For details of these and other games turn to the Sports Pages. British Offer to Consider Jewish State Plan May Attract Agency to Parley LONDON (U.R) An authoritative spokesman said the British Government was ready to consider seriously creation of an independent. Jewish state as part of a partition plan in the Holy Land, when the Palestine conference is resumed here late this month. He said Britain did not contem plate putting forth any plan for division of Palestine as a basis for discussion at the conference. "But the Government will give the plan the fullest possible con sideration if the Jews put it for ward," he said.

IF DAVID BEN-GURION, chairman of the Jewish Agency, gets this assurance, it is believed he will agree to Jewish participation in the conference. He was scheduled to start talks with Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones Thursday. It appeared, however, that there might be some trouble getting a partition plan before the conference. The Arabs, opposed to any splitting up of Palestine, will not propose one. Representatives from the United States, who will attend as ob servers, will not be in a position to submit a partition plan.

Last month's world Zionist congress in Basel made it clear that while the Jews might accept partition, they will not propose it if they decide to attend the conference. Jew Sentenced to Die for Police Post Attack JERUSALEM (JP) Dov Gru-ner, 33-year-old member of Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground resistance organization, was sentenced by a military court to hang for participating in an attack on a police station. The Irgun organization issued a note to Hebrew newspapers declaring "our warfare will go on." Gruner, who has a sister in America, was charged with firing a gun in the attack of April 23 in which two police officers were killed and 15 members of the resistance organization wounded. He had been discharged from the Jewish brigade of the British army 10 days before the attack. French Warned TOULOUSE, France Southwestern France was alerted against the danger of a malta fever epidemic following the theft of a physician's auto containing a dozen vials in which microbes of the disease were kept.

Wringer her landlord, Leland Bradley, if she could do her washing in the basement. He instructed her how to operate the washer, then left her alone in the basement. Her death was not discovered until 4 p. three hours after she had gone to the basement. Coroner Ganzhorn said an autopsy would be conducted Thursday morning to confirm the cause of death.

He said a sister in Minden City had been notified. Free Press Photo MADELON SIGLER Lansing Two Killed, 8 Injured in Traffic Six Are Arrested as Drunk Drivers The advent of 1947 brought a rash of traffic accidents in which two persons were killed and two injured so seriously they are not expected to live. Six other persons were injured in a DSR bus crash. BUSY POLICE on the alert for careless driving jailed 10 motorists on charges of driving recklessly or while drunk. The first traffic fatalities of the year were a young man and Hamtramck Shoivs Perfect 946 Record Hamtramck Police reported a perfect traffic record for 1946.

The last fatality was in December, 1945, and the last child to be killed in Hamtramck traffic was in June, 1938. young woman who died when their car crashed head-on with a street car at Grand River and Cheyenne. The accident happened within an hour after they had ushered in the New Year. DEAD WERE Frederick Risman, 23, of 8093 Cloverlawn, the driver, and Jane A. Potts, 22, of 1312 Cicotte, Lincoln Park, a passenger in the front seat.

Joan Guzak, 18, of 15817 Fairfield, a passenger in the rear seat, was injured critically, and Blair B. Byrd. 23, of 15834 Prince-Turn to Page 2, Column 3 StationsCut WASHINGTON (JP) A shortage of technical personnel has forced the Coast Guard to limit its North Atlantic weather stations to two instead of the four planned for this winter. GOV. SIGLER move into center spotlight at Free Press Photo WANT 'UTTER HONESTY' 'to honor and dignity' hand.

Sub-zero temperature readings were recorded at several points and snow was general throughout Michigan. The Upper Peninsula's 18-inch snow blanket -was deepened with a fresh falL The northern part of the Lower Peninsula had more added to its 12-inch covering. Southern Michigan had snow flurries. Coldest spot was Pellston, where the mercury skidded to 30 below. Other below-zero readings were reported at Escanaba, -19; Saginaw, -14; Grand Rapids, -11; Sault Ste.

Marie and Houghton, -2. Near zero weather, with freez ing rain, sleet and snow covered -y a wide area from Aew England to the Gulf Coast. Football "bowl" games, except those at Miami and Pasadena, were played in below normal temperatures. One game, the Alamo Bowl at San Antonio, was called off because of the extreme cold. Despite icy.

roads, the holiday traffic death toll throughout the Nation was held to 39, five of them in Michigan. Cold Weather to Linger Longer in Detroit Area Forecast Sees No Immediate Letup; Southwest U.S. Hit by Frigid Wave Don't expect a January thaw yet. The holiday cold spell will continue for a few more days in the Detroit area, the Weather Man said. However, the temperature may rise to 32 degrees Thursday afternoon.

PARTY DROWNS OUT CRIES FOR HELP Girl, 21, Is Strangled by Light snow is expected to fall occasionally. The lowest temperature New Year's Day was between midnight and 1 a. when the mercury was 9 above zero. By afternoon it had risen to 28. ELSEWHERE IN the State, King Winter ruled with an icy What Goes On Inside Storms? Air Forces pilots are now flying into the middle of thunderstorms to see what makes them tick.

They call these fearless fliers the VWeather Riders." A picture story of their weird "business will appear in PARADE MAGAZINE. Also, an intriguing picture story about a Detroit Powers student who majors in charm in the GRAPHIC MAGAZINE of SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS Special to the Free Press YPSILANTI Miss Jeanette L. Swayze, 21, strangled when her babushka caught in the wringer ot an electric washing machine. Overhead at the time, on the first floor of the rooming house at 609 Emmet, a New Year's party was in progress. THE NOISE OF the party was believed to have drowned out the sound of her cries.

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